Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

An ever-updating collection of retro Americana.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."